Yesterday was Tuesday, which like most of the Tuesdays since March meant that I would be biking to and from my volunteer shift at the SPCALA Spay/Neuter Clinic on Jefferson Boulevard. So as usual I got myself onto 4th Street Bike Boulevard (even though specificaly calling it “Bike Boulevard” is now frowned upon by many …
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Last year the Amgen Tour of California ignored Los Angeles, and the year before I had to go downtown to watch a bit of the time trial stage, but this year the Amgen tour’s course designers did me a nice favor in sending the final stage cyclists along Sunset Boulevard — literally a half-block from …
Please pardon the vertical iPhone video, but while biking up to the observatory Tuesday morning, I was brought to a stop across from the Greek Theater by a coyote in close proximity camouflaged beautifully against the hillside foliage. Just as it seems to appear out of nowhere, so to it disappears after casually walking along …
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At the beginning of this clip I’m at Lexington awaiting the green to cross Vermont in East Hollywood. Up ahead a block before Virgil I’ll make a left onto Westmoreland and go down hard. Wham ass over teakettle. It’s two or three quick frames of the timelapse. Blink and you’ll miss it. I was coming …
According to EastsiderLA blog, some dastardly jackass cyclist on the LA River Bike Path this past weekend reportedly knocked down and slightly injured a volunteer helping with the Friends of the Los Angeles River’s annual Great LA River Cleanup. And didn’t even bother to stop. Sigh. And of course the moment such preventable things like …
I’m a week late in posting anything about the April 15 CicLAvia mainly because I’ve tried five times to upload the 12-minute timelapse video to YouTube, and five times YouTube has aborted the upload. It’s not like me to provide some documentation of what’s my favorite biking event ever, so in lieu of banging my …